Used 2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT) Consumer Reviews
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Stranded!
Gary, Chandler, AZ, 05/10/2020
Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
Bought new in 2019, gets amazing mpg between 48-51 like clockwork, even with using AC. Has had some very slight fit & finish issues until 5/3. Started the car when it began revving & stalling than I received ‘Power System Failure, Do Not Drive’ Car was towed to the Honda dealer where it took them 2 days to diagnose a failure of Fuel injection relay & fuel pump. After years of European cars, I went with a Honda for the alleged reliability. Now I’m not so sure...even my 1977 VW camper has not stranded me like this year old car with less than 20k miles did! Sigh...
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Bet I'm Not the Only One
Clinton Brown, Muskegon, MI, 02/04/2019
Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
35 of 53 people found this review helpful
I was upset with Toyota for changing the design of the Prius and couldn't see spending another $30K+ for a car that appeared to be made with cheap materials on the interior so I checked out what I thought would be the next best thing--a Honda Insight. I test drove both the 2019 Insight and the 2018 Prius on the same day, and decided that the comfort, ride, interior styling and comparable gas mileage of the Insight was a better value. Boy was I wrong! Before I hit 1200 miles a warning light telling me that I had "Reduced Power" came on making my Insight non-operational. The dealership informed me that this was due to the cold weather in the midwest and that this is the way hybrid cars work and that I would just have to deal with it. I'm sorry, but I live in Michigan. You sold me a car in Michigan and then tell me I can't drive it when it is really cold in Michigan? I just went out and started my Prius and it works just fine. For the first 600 miles or so I was getting approximately 48 mpg. I drive on flat, country roads where the speed limit ranges from 35 - 50 mph. Around the 1000 mile mark I struggled to get 30 mpg. The dealership says "mileage may vary". A 15 mpg difference in a few hundred miles seems pretty extreme, but the dealership doesn't see an issue. I am now stuck with a vehicle that won't work in the cold and gets 30 mpg. I specifically purchased another hybrid because I drive over 100 miles a day. Wish I would have read more reviews because it seems I'm not the only one. Next time I will take the "cheap materials" over reliability and gas mileage.
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Insight is a new modified Accord
Dhruv Parikh, Washington, DC, 08/28/2018
Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
8 of 11 people found this review helpful
We actually went to get a Accord LX, a basic model for my son. After seeing Honda Insight Touring Model pretty much at the same price (couple of grands more), with a whole lot of new technology . Test drive was almost comparable. Honda Sensing feature with Android Play is icing on the cake.
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inside the insight with a little foresight
Bob B, Venice, FL, 01/15/2019
Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
15 of 24 people found this review helpful
Very nice car. Looks great and technologically up to date. A little noisy at highway speeds but that is to be expected. The biggest disappointment IS POOR GAS MILEAGE. The EV mode needs to be adjusted to balance the real needs of the engine and running on the battery. In the last 30 days, I have only got 35 highway and 46 city. Mileage was much better before December 1st. Have no idea what changed but I'm not a happy camper.
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Nice car that falls short in key areas
VinceH, Milwaukee, WI, 02/28/2020
Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
Owned my 2019 Insight touring for 4 months now and i'll have to say I am extremely disappointed in the fuel mileage comparative to what this car was advertised as being able to achieve.In the last 4 months of ownership I have not been able to break the 36MPG threshold which a friend of mine beats all day long with his 2018 civic! My daily commute is a 65 mile round trip 90/10 Highway City route and usually cruise at 72-75MPH with mostly flat terrain along my commute. Winter here in Wisconsin is rough and yes I do use the remote start for a 5 min warm up then set the ClimateC at 69 use the heated seats and switch between Sport mode entering the freeway and normal mode while cruising. Before purchasing this last November the salesman let me take the car out for a few hour test drive. Upon leaving the dealership I reset the OD and waited to observe results with mixed driving. After a few hours of driving I noticed I could not break 38MPG no matter what I was doing? After returning the car the dealer had me convinced that winter blended fuels and the air density/ cold weather all that jazz was probably sucking in excess of 10MPG from the car. Confused I ended up doing a similar test drive with a 2019 Prius XLE averaging 52MPG along a similar route a few days later. Well in the end the Insight is just a better looking car and has a more upscale feel so ended up purchasing it for this reason alone. So between the terrible droning the ICM makes transitioning off power (usually 4 big loud droning Hums after reaching freeway speeds(totally annoying!!) and the sub-par hybrid mileage i am getting my only hope is come April I will see some major improvements or I will be one unhappy Honda customer, heck I was getting 32MPG with my tuned 2013 Accord 2.4L Manual Trans that is just insane 3 more MPG? in a new high tech Hybrid? that's just a shame it could be Honda needs to look a little closer at Toyota's technologies and see what they are doing so right.
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